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geography final
Geography Final Review 09 semester 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| name the 5 themes of geography | location, place, region, HEI, movement |
| describe plan ( azimuthal) projection | strength-line from center gives shortest distance between pointsweakness- size and shap distorted |
| conical projection | strength- accurate shape, shows land masses that extend over large areasweakness- distorts landmass |
| cyndrical(compromise) projectiona | strength- shows entire earth on mapweakness- shpaes of contientents distorted and compressed to equator |
| Robinson Projection | strength- shpaes and sizes of landmassweakness-shapes near poles, flat |
| Parts of a map and their discription... | TODALSIGS.....TITLE ORIENTATION, DATE, AUTHOR, LEGEND, SCALE, INDEX, GRID, SOURCE |
| imaginary line that oghes around the eartyh through the north and south poles. the long lines of the map | longitude |
| the set of imaginary lines that measure north and south on a map. the look like a latter | latitude |
| continous ciculation of water between the atmosphere, ocean and earth | hydrolic cycle- |
| what are the 4 main types of relief( landforms) | mountains, hills, plains, plateus |
| mechanical weathering | process of breaking down rock into smaller pieves, doesnt changed rock only size |
| chemical weathering | rock changed into new substance from interaction between air/water and minerals of rock |
| What is the ring of fire | chain of active volcanoes around pacific ocean |
| what do convergent subduction plates form? | volcanoes |
| what do convergent collison plates form?? | mountains |
| what do divergent paltes form? | Valleys? |
| what makrs the begging of summer and winter and summer is the longest and winter is the shortest? | solstice |
| what is the day when the day and night are equal and mark beginning of sprin gand autumn | equinox |
| winter solstice date? | december 22-23 |
| autumnal equinox date | september 23 |
| summer soltice date | june 21-22 |
| vernal ( spring) equinox date | mark 21 |
| the bend of winds due to earths totation ( hot air flows up, cold air flows toward equator) | coriolis effect |
| when warm water is away from equator and cold water is toward...what map is this in | ocean currents map |
| what are the 3 ways rain form | frontal, convectional and orographic |
| describe what FRONTAL precipitation is | cold dense air masses that push lighter warm air masses upward, causing rain to form |
| describe what OROGRAPHIC precipitation is | associates with mountain areas, drop more atin on windward side of a mountain and create a rain shadow on the leeward side |
| describe what CONVECTIONAL precipitation is | typical of hot climates, convection occurs after morning sunshine heats warm moist air. clouds form in the afternoon and rain falls |
| spread of ideas, inventions and patterns of behavior is... | diffusion |
| Acculturation | occurs when a society changes because i accepts or adopts an innovation |
| give an example of how diffusion and acculturation effected english and india? | example... a major language of india is english because it used to be a part of english cont. |
| monotheistic | belives in one god |
| polytheistic | belives in many gods |
| mortality rate | death rate per 1000 |
| infant mortality rate | death per 1000 under age 1 |
| birth rate | births per 1000 |
| rate of natural increase | population growth rate |
| what are the 4 economic activities? | primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary |
| describe primiary act. | raw materials such as timber, for immidiate use or use for final product |
| describe secondary act. | adding value to materials by changing their form ( manu. auto)...ex. cars |
| describe tertiary act. | providing buisness or professional services...ex salses person, teacher ( service industry) |
| describe quaternary act. | provide info, management and reseatrch services by highly trained persons ( ex. compuer programers, web tec.) |
| describe a command economy | gov. owned/controlled |
| describe a demand ( market) economy | determined by demand of consumers |
| infrastructure | basic support systems needed to keep an economy going ( ex. power, comm., transportation, water...) |
| Federalism | system of gov in whcih power is shared by a central gov and by state gov |
| Monarchy | king/queen hold political power and may or may not share power wtih the citizens ( ex. UK and saudi Arabia) |
| independent unit, occupies an are and has control of internal and external affairs | state |
| group of ppl with a common culture, are with strong unity | nation |
| totalitarian | gov has total conrol ( one or small group of ppl) |
| columbian exchange | goods traded between old world ( europe) and new world (america)...both diseases and crops they recieved affected the N. Am ( indian) population |
| list the 4 subregions of the USA | northeast, midwest, south, west |
| which subregion in the USA holds 5% land area | northeast |
| whcih subregion in the USA is the american heartland and holds 12 states | midwest |
| which subregion of the USA holds 1/4 of the US, 1/3 of the population, 16 states | South |
| whcih subregion of the USA holds 1/2 of the land and has 13 states | West |
| What is Megalopolis? | region in which several large cities and surrounding areas grow togeher |
| what is metropolitan? | funcional area including a city and its surrounding suburbs and exurbs, linked ecconomically |
| what is postindustrial? | economic phase in which manufacturing no longer plays a domminate role` |
| Explain Free enterprise | economic system where private individuals ownmost of the resources, technology, and buisnesses, and can operate them for a profit with litter government control. |
| describe the French and English problems in canada | french claimed much of canada ( newfrance). british also colonzion N.am along at.coast. furtrade and fish import to both. britain won over france in french and indian war. forcing france to surrender land. but french settle remained... |
| name the 4 subregions of Canada | atlantic, core, prarie, pacific provinces |
| what candian province has a rugged terrain and allows only 8% of pop to live here...logging fish, mining | atlantic provinces |
| what candian province is the heartland of canada, 3/5 canadians live here, canadas political and economic center | core provinces |
| what candian provinceis the breadbasket.....50% of canadas argicultural production is here, 60% mineral out put, diverse cultures | prarie provinces |
| what candian province where most the pop in the s.w, snowfields and glaciers, territories make up 41% landmass | pacific provinces |
| Nunavut | one of canada's territories and home to many of canadas inuit; it was carved out of the eastern half of n. west territories |
| NAFTA | stands for the north american free trade agreement; important trade agreement creating a huge zone of cooperation on trade and economic issues in n Am.; tarrifs on manu. goods are slowly dissapearing. creating millions of jobs |
| what was mexicos change in government in 2000? | challenges- jobs, emigration,edu-mx. pop doubled by year 2000-vincente fox, national action party cand, elected pres of mx. for 1st time in 71 years, PRRI did not control mx congress or pres...election show mx was becoming more democratic |
| why is brazil different? | portuguese founded it. they speak portuguease not spanish |
| what is cubas problem? | poverty and dictatorshiip are cubas problem |
| describe the amazon and the rain forest | rainforest- veg. helps clean eaths atmosphere, regulates climate, shelter millions of species,ect... |
| describe amazona nd rainforest elaborate. | native ppl living in poverty, travel to rain forest in seatch land on which they grow crops. clearforest unknowing of fertile soil.cutting down trees causes land erosion. |
| Pampas | areas of grasslands and rich soil found in n argentina and uruguay. |
| Fjords | also called glaciers in norway, steep u-shaped valleys that connect to sea and filled w/ seawater after glaciers melted |
| mistral | cold, dry, wind from north |
| sirocco | hot, steady south wind that blows from north africa across med. sea into southern europe, mostly spring. |
| current of warm water from tropics, flows near europes w. coast | north atlantic coast |
| Meseta | Central plateu of spain |
| Polder | land that is reclaimed by diking and draining. steps 10 shallow water 20 water pumped away 30 rain washes left over salt away 40 alfalfa planted 5 farming beginnings |
| Dike | earthern bank used to direct or prevent passasge of water |
| process of bereaking up a region into small, mutually hostile units | balkanization |
| type of economic system in which production of goods and services is determined by demand from consumers. Also called demand economy/capitalism | market economy |
| cultural cross roads | example is eastern europe...... two cultures come together |
| ethnic cleansing | policy of trying to eliminate an ethnic group thorugh violence |
| European Economic Community | provides the EUw/ reliable info about environment. |
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kelly ann craig
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